Dot Baires Shopping is a

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located in the Saavedra neighborhood of the city of

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. The mall was opened in 2009El shopping Dot Baires, con problemas desde antes de ser inaugurado
on Perfil.com, 7 Dec 2012 incorporating an office building into the complex, plus architecture with a dynamic, highly visible front and a landscaped atrium on

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. The shopping center belongs to local holding IRSA and was built at a cost of

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160 million. It was designed by the Pfeifer-Zurdo (PfZ) studio. Shopping Dot has three floors for commercial stores and three underground floors (for parking purposes) covering a total of 173,000 m². It has a total of 155 commercial stores.

Overview

Apart from the commercial stores, Dot Baires shopping has 10

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s of

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chain, occupying a surface area of 6,500 m² and with a total of 2,500 seats. Shopping dot interior

The mall has an eight-story office building connected to it in which companies such as HP and

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have their corporate offices. Additionally, it has a second building inaugurated in April 2019 called ''Polo Dot'', where Mercado Libre has its corporate offices. When some foreign companies ceased operations in Argentina due to the financial crisis caused by the

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(such as Chilean

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and American

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), IRSA invested US$6 million to refurbish the Dot Baires, adding services stores including a medical center, a gym, a pharmacy chain, a premium food market and even

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pitches.

Controversies

On December 6, 2012, in the middle of the deluge and floods, a group of people entered the shopping mall to complain. As reported by IRSA spokesmen to the newspaper "La Nación", they were residents of

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''Barrio Mitre'', who were protesting because their neighborhood was flooded and accused the construction of the shopping center of the flooding. The residents of Barrio Mitre have been denouncing for some time the conflicts due to flooding in the area, accusing the Dot shopping center of generating them.Esta fue la causa de los incidentes en el DOT
on Infobae, 7 Dec 2012 On the other hand, IRSA denied the accusations alleging that in days where in the period of one hour it rains more than 100 mm. the pluvial system collapsed, as it happened in other parts of the city. In 2009 and soon after the shopping was inaugurated, fashion designer Laurencio Adot claimed for the rights over the ''Dot'' and ''Dot Store'' names so he stated to have registered it in 2006 with the purpose of using the brand for a

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on Avenida Alvear in

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. The store commercialised clothing designed by Adot and other Latin American designers but closed two years after being opened. Adot also used the ''Dot'' name for his fashion shows.DOT by Laurencio Adot, un cierre de lujo muy urbano
on Julylatorre.com - 5 Sep 2014

References

External links

* {{coord missing, Argentina Shopping malls in Buenos Aires